Power Automate Desktop - advanced UI elements

The Power Platform Done Quick series is an attempt at solving your issues quickly without having to search the video for the 30 seconds that actually help you.

Covered in this video is looking for website text and using ordinals

0:00 Introduction
0:11 Properly editing the UI element
1:24 Browser dev tool
2:54 Contains operator
4:14 Multiple similar elements
4:46 Ordinals
6:35 Variables in selectors
8:06 Contains operator

[MatKjeldsen]

Great clip! I can see we are multiple Danes working in this community, that's so cool to see! :)

[andersjensenorg]

Great - Everyone asking me about selectors in PAD gets a link to this!

[mdsouza]

exactly What i was looking for.. thanks for posting this.

[AndreasMake]

Thank you for making my day. Great video

[muthukumarrajaiyan]

Thanks for the great video, able to understand clearly.

[TapEarnTips]

Great video Thomas, please keep them coming!

[garrettfinnell]

So helpful! I've been looking for an explanation on how the ordinals system works. Totally didn't know it had a starting point of zero.
Would've taken me at least a few more days of testing and frustration to figure that out. Thanks very much!

[BLobregat]

Dude I'm so grateful about your explanation, I was trying to get warranty date from Dell website and the Power Automate was getting text equal to the first search, so after I removed the 'condition' text equal to text and kept the class title, it worked well. Thanks a lot!!!

[nuinhuin]

Great valuable Infos. Thanks for Sharing!

[dexterlee]

thanks for sharing great video
may I ask how can I loop it to the last of Ordinal
when I original don't know how much is there?
cheers

[jeffc]

Good day. Thomas where would be a good place to learn in detail about Power Automate (i.e. course work or books)? It seems like there is a lot of tailored information for easy tasks. I is real hard to find in-depth information in abundances like yours.
I would like to know in-depth information about all Power Automate, but right now I'm learning how to make flows between software's on Windows. It is hard to get thing to repeat without having to redo all of the UI element each time, when I open Power Automate and the software's.
Do you have any good suggestions?
Thank you
Jeff

[dcanbazlar]

Can you make more videos like this, with advanced examples

[MrPueblerino]

Is it posible select an element from a shadow root?

[mukramcricktech]

How do you get all the data from the box for each down scroll please explain

[SimoneCarp]

Very nice. I'll ask if you could help with another head-scratcher, I'd appreciate if you had the time to check! Basically I activate a web browser on a page, select a button, and the action generates a second tab (where I'd like to submit username and password) which comes with a "formally incorrect URL" - I can't use it directly to open a new browser instance. Unfortunately, PAD switches back to the original tab before it can fill the fields, and the flow fails since it can't recognize the UI elements. I've tried clicking on the tabs area "on the right", but of course the trick doesn't work. I've also tried typing text (hotkey combination Ctrl+2) to switch to the second tab. Still doesn't work. PAD doesn't do image recognition like Automate Anywhere either, so right now I'm a little stuck on this apparently little issue.